Can't email a Numbers file

I'm trying to ween myself off Microsoft Office and use iWork more...but besides the usual formatting issues that iWork apps don't support, I've just encountered another problem I can't seem to work around.  If I try to email a Numbers spreadsheet (in the clear or zipped) both Gmail and iCloud mail reject it as being an executable. 
Come on, Apple...it's four columns and 30 rows of pure text and numbers...nothing at all executable.  And the same spreadsheet in Excel will attach and send just fine in both email services.  Does Numbers somehow mark all spreadsheets as executables?  If so...I can't use it.  Thanks for any help.

Apple Mail can be used to email a Numbers document. You can see the option here...
If you choose Email, you get this dialog...
It all works fine with Apple Mail. Gmail doesn't like the file package format and there's nothing we can do about that. Mailing a link to a document stored in iCloud also works, but there have been reports of corruption when opening in iCloud Numbers, so I would avoid that. Just download the file and open in Numbers for Mac.
Jerry

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